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The US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in their decision for Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954), but had no plan for implementing integration. The Court asked both sides to develop a strategy for dismantling the old educational infrastructure and addressing the logistics of integrating the schools.
The Court convened in April 1955 to hear arguments related to integration in Brown v. Board of Education II, 349 US 294 (1955), the planned second phase of the landmark civil rights case. In Brown II, the schools requested more time to make changes, preferring to phase in integration over an extended period of time. Civil rights activists wanted more rapid changes.
The Supreme Court attempted to forge a compromise and issued an order for US District Courts to oversee creation of racially nondiscriminatory school districts "with all deliberate speed," indicating an expectation of diligent haste, but leaving the time frame vague, open to interpretation, and more difficult to enforce.
Some school districts, including Topeka, Kansas, the city where the named case originated, responded quickly; other districts, particularly those in the South, resisted integration and were obstructionist, rather than cooperative.
The federal government under the Eisenhower administration was less than proactive about enforcing the Brown decisions on a national basis, only intervening in isolated cases (such as the Little Rock Nine). This allowed the process to extend more than a decade in some areas, until Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legislation that finally assisted the progress of civil rights.
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education II, 349 US 294 (1955)
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∙ 6y agoThe ruling was that segregation in public places had to come to an end.
Answer 2:
The ruling stated that segregation in education facilities was unconstitutional. Integration and the Civil Rights Movement were results of the ruling.
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What did the dramatic ruling in Brown v Board of Education threaten?
Segregation.
What Supreme Court case resulted in the integration of public schools?
The Warren Court ruled segregated schools were unconstitutional in Brown v Board of Education, (1954), and ordered integration to take place "at all deliberate speed" in Brown v Board of Education II, (1955).
Which court cases struck down the Plessy v Ferguson ruling?
Brown v. board of education
What was the ruling in the brown v. board of education of Topeka case?
Segregated schools are unconstitutional A+
Did the court overturn the judicial precedent of plessy v Ferguson with its ruling in the brown v board of education case?
yes it did
What was the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education?
Segregation education is inherently unequal.
The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was an important step in?
The Civil Rights Movement
How did the supreme court ruling in the case of brown v the Topeka board of education affect education in the US?
Abolished segregation in schools
Which was major achievement of the civil rights movement during the 1940s or 1950s?
The Brown v. Board of education ruling
What was ruled in brown v. Board of education?
The ruling was that segregation in public places had to come to an end. Answer 2: The ruling stated that segregation in education facilities was unconstitutional. Integration and the Civil Rights Movement were results of the ruling.
What court case established the principle that separate education is inherently unequal?
Brown V. Board of Education
How does Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka resolve the conflict separate but equal?
The case of Brown v Board of Education in Topeka Kansas resolved the issue of spereate but equal schools by overturning Plessy v Ferguson ruling, and allowing blacks and whites to go to the same schools.
